Carlisle man jailed for attack on train conductor
Cumbria Crack: A Carlisle man who beat up a railway conductor after being thrown off a train for having no ticket has been sent to prison for 16 months. 23-year-old Reece Bellas was on an early morning...
View ArticlePenrith woman tagged following step-sister assault
Cumbria Crack: A Penrith woman has admitted assaulting her step-sister after getting drunk on her way home from an alcohol dependency clinic. Magistrates in North Cumbria were told she attended
View ArticleWoman kicked in Barrow gang attack
Cumbria Crack: Police in Barrow are appealing for witnesses to an assault which left a woman with a broken rib. On Tuesday 26th August at around 4.30pm a 41-year-old woman from Barrow was attacked by a...
View ArticleMan found with serious injuries in Carlisle
Cumbria Crack: Police are currently investigating how a 28-year-old man sustained serious injuries. Police were called at around 4:45pm yesterday (1st September) to a caravan at Ladysteps, Scotby, with...
View ArticlePolice probe teenage sexual assault
Cumbria Crack: Detectives in Annan are continuing enquiries following a report of a sexual assault in the Standalane area on Saturday 6 September 2014. At around 11:40pm a 17-year-old girl was making...
View ArticleBoy, 13, hurt in Whitehaven attack
Cumbria Crack: Police are investigating an assault which occurred on Rutland Avenue in Whitehaven. At approx 4pm on Saturday 6 September a 13-year-old boy from Whitehaven sustained injuries after being...
View ArticleMan charged with GBH after woman seriously injured in Workington
Cumbria Crack: A man has been charged with GBH after a woman was attacked in Workington. A 24-year-old woman was seriously injured in an assault at a property on Finkle Street in Workington
View ArticlePolice probe Wigton sex attack
Cumbria Crack: [P]olice are investigating a serious sexual assault that occurred this morning (7th September). Sometime between 4 and 5am on West Road Wigton an 18-year-old woman was assaulted. The...
View ArticlePolice seek Annan sex attack witnesses
Cumbria Crack: A police investigation is under way after a 17-year-old woman was sexually assaulted while walking home in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway. Early police investigations into the sexual...
View ArticleMan speaks out against ‘savage and unprovoked’ holiday attack
Cumbria Crack: A Cumbrian man has been left with serious injuries after he was attacked and left for dead whilst on holiday in Corfu. Lee Smith, 37, who is originally from Keswick
View ArticleTeenager arrested in Wigton sex attack probe
Cumbria Crack: Police are continuing to investigate a serious sexual assault that occurred during the early hours of Sunday 7th September 2014. Sometime between 4 and 5am on West Road, Wigton an...
View ArticleMan filmed himself sexually assault man
Cumbria Crack: A 44-year-old man has today been found guilty at Carlisle Crown Court of rape and sexual assault of a man in a car in Whitehaven in June 2013. Andrew Tew filmed part of the assault on...
View ArticleWorkington taxi driver charged in connection with sex assault
Cumbria Crack: Detectives from Workington CID have charged Ian Burge, aged 36, from Newlands Gardens, Workington in connection with a serious sexual assault that took place during the early hours of...
View ArticleCarer jailed for ill-treating resident
Cumbria Crack: A care worker has today been sentenced to 4 months imprisonment at Carlisle Crown Court for ill-treating a resident of The Dales Care Home in Maryport.
View ArticleMan hurt in ‘sickening’ attack
Cumbria Crack: A man has been hurt after being repeatedly kicked and punched in the head and body. The attack occurred at approx 12:30am on Saturday 13 September following the Torchlight procession on...
View ArticleMan accused of sex attack on girl, 9
Cumbria Crack: A man from West Cumbria has appeared before a judge at Carlisle Crown Court (MON) accused of trying to rape a nine-year-old girl. John Robert Newton faces charges of attempted rape
View ArticleCarlisle man arrested on suspicion of rape
Cumbria Crack: Police are appealing for witnesses following a report of a sexual assault in Carlisle. A 26-year-old woman has reported that at 7pm on Monday, 15 September she was sexually assaulted on...
View ArticleWhitehaven sex attack man gets 9-years
Cumbria Crack: Andrew Tew, aged 44 from Buttermere Avenue, Whitehaven, was sentenced today at Carlisle Crown Court having being found guilty by jury last week.
View ArticleEleven arrested in south Cumbria acquisitive crime crackdown
Cumbria Crack: Police in south Cumbria have this week ran an operation that has targeted acquisitive crime. Officers from a number of departments have focused on this crime type in the south Cumbria...
View ArticleFormer soldier attacked after disturbing burglars
Cumbria Crack: A former soldier was brutally attacked on his own doorstep when he disturbed a gang of burglars. The callous thieves also stole the wedding ring given to him by his late wife and money...
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